Dictionary Definition
odd adj
1 not divisible by two [ant: even]
2 not easily explained; "it is odd that his name
is never mentioned"
3 an indefinite quantity more than that
specified; "invited 30-odd guests"
4 beyond or deviating from the usual or expected;
"a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they
have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar
aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this
town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular]
6 not used up; "leftover meatloaf"; "she had a
little money left over so she went to a movie"; "some odd dollars
left"; "saved the remaining sandwiches for supper"; "unexpended
provisions" [syn: leftover, left
over(p), left(p), remaining, unexpended]
User Contributed Dictionary
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English
Etymology
oddi, which comes from oddr via an intermediate meaning of "triangle". The original meaning is "left over".Adjective
en-adj er- strange, unusual.
- arithmetic not comparable Not divisible by two.
- But for the odd exception.
- left
over, remaining when
the rest have been grouped
- I'm the odd one out.
- casual, irregular.
- He's only worked odd jobs.
- In the context of "in combination with a number|not
comparable": about,
approximately.
- There were thirty-odd people in the room.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- sense not divisible by two even
Translations
strange
- Catalan: estrany
- Chinese: 奇怪 (qí quài)
- Dutch: vreemd, merkwaardig, raar
- Esperanto: stranga
- Finnish: outo, kummallinen, omituinen
- French: bizarre, étrange
- German: seltsam, merkwürdig, komisch
- Ido: baroka
- Italian: strano, strambo
- Japanese: 変 (へん, hen)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: سهیر
- Polish: dziwny
- Portuguese: estranho, raro
- Russian: странный
- Slovene: čuden , čudna , čudno
- Spanish: extraño, raro
- Telugu: విలక్షణమైన (vilakshaNamaina)
not divisible by two
rare: but for the odd exception
- Dutch: uitzonderlijk, zeldzaam
left over after others have been grouped
- Dutch: overblijvend, resterend
- Finnish: pariton
- Korean: 우수리 (usuri)
casual, irregular
- Dutch: onregelmatig
- Finnish: satunnainen
about
- Catalan: aproximadament
- Dutch: bij benadering, ongeveer
- Finnish: noin, suunnilleen
- French: à peu près
Noun
See odds- defn English
Extensive Definition
Odd may refer to:
- In everyday language: the quality of being unpaired, occasional, strange or unusual
- In mathematics:
- an integer is odd if dividing it by two does not result in another integer; see even and odd numbers
- a function f defined on the real numbers is odd if f(x) = −f(−x) for all x; see even and odd functions
- a permutation of a finite set is odd if it can be written as the functional composition of an odd number of transpositions; see even and odd permutations
- In probability theory, the odds in favour of an event is the ratio of the event's probability to the complementary probability.
- Odd (name), is a name of Old Norse origin, the 11th most common male name in Norway (coincidentally, Even is also a common Norwegian name). In Old Norse the word means the sharp end of a weapon, e.g. edge of a sword or spear/arrow head.
- Odd, West Virginia, USA
- Odd Grenland B.K., is a Norwegian football team
- Odd Della Robbia, a character in Code Lyoko
ODD may refer to:
- Optical Disc Drive (CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc/HD-DVD Drive)
- Oppositional defiant disorder
- ODD (fanzine''), a Hugo-nominated science fiction fanzine published by Raymond "Duggie" Fisher
- In computer science, ODD (One Document Does it all) is a W3C specification
- ODD, a play by Hal Corley.
odd in Czech: Odd
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abnormal, absolute, absurd, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, alone, anomalous, asymmetric, azygous, bereft of reason,
brainsick, cardinal, casual, celibate, chance, contingent, contrasting, counter, crackbrained, cracked, crank, crankish, cranky, crazed, crazy, crotchety, curious, daft, decimal, deluded, demented, deprived of reason,
deranged, deviant, deviative, different, differential, digital, disoriented, disparate, disproportionate,
dissimilar, distraught, divergent, diverse, dotty, eccentric, erratic, even, exceptional, exponential, extra, fey, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, first and last, flaky, flighty, fluky, fortuitous, fractional, freaked out,
freakish, freaky, funny, hallucinated, hardly like,
idiocratic, idiosyncratic,
ill-matched, ill-sorted, imaginary, impair, impossible, inadequate, incidental, infinite, insane, insufficient, integral, irrational, irregular, kinky, kooky, left, leftover, loco, logarithmic, logometric, lone, lunatic, mad, maddened, maggoty, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient,
meshuggah, mismatched, moon-struck,
negative, net, non compos, non compos mentis,
nonuniform, not all
there, not right, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, nutty, occasional, oddball, of unsound mind,
off, off the wall, offbeat, one and only, only, only-begotten, ordinal, out, out of proportion,
out-of-the-way, outlandish, outstanding, over, pair, part-time, passing strange,
peculiar, positive, possible, prime, psycho, quaint, queer, quirky, radical, rational, real, reasonless, reciprocal, remaining, remanent, scarcely like,
screwball, screwy, senseless, sick, side, single, singular, skew, skewed, sole, spare, stark-mad, stark-staring
mad, strange, submultiple, superfluous, surd, surplus, surviving, tetched, to spare, touched, transcendental, twisted, unalike, unbalanced, unconsumed, unconventional, unearthly, unequal, uneven, unhinged, unidentical, unique, unlike, unmatched, unnatural, unpaired, unrepeated, unresembling, unsame, unsane, unsettled, unsimilar, unsound, unused, unusual, wacky, wandering, weird, whimsical, witless, wondrous
strange